X-11 Forwarding (with tunneling not via UNIX sockets)

[maf at appgate.com]

On 21 nov, m.riedel at fz-juelich.de wrote:
> So, Mindterm only works with tcp/ip connections to the x-server while
> port 6000 can be closed by a firewall. That means only localhost
> connections are going to the port 6000 and the X is tunneled from the
> remote side within the SSH connection.
> 
> Hence, Mindterm does not work with UNIX sockets and X11-Forwarding,
> you need an X-server that accepts tcp connections.

That is correct. MindTerm currently only supports TCP connections to the
X11-server. But it should not be particularly hard to add support for
unix style sockets as well.

	/MaF